World’s biggest carrier and an RFI for portable IFE

If the self-proclaimed “World’s Largest Airline” releases an RFI on Friday afternoon to put 350+ non-imbedded, handheld IFE devices on each of their sixteen recently inherited 747 aircraft, you can assume that:

A. The carrier considers handheld devices the ultimate IFE solution for their international passengers traveling up to 14 hours on their largest and most recognized aircraft in the world. (Consider the fanfare the carrier made when they painted these aircraft in the new livery.)

B. The carrier wants to increase the amount of time their most senior and friendliest flight attendants spend with the passengers by having them push heavy carts up and down the aisle as they graciously hand out the devices.

C. The carrier has determined that flight attendants will not suffer the effects from Deep Vein Thrombosis if they are getting regular exercise throughout the flight.

This is by far the best looking 747-400 paint job (livery). Thank god they covered up that nasty looking previous paint job. The bowling shoe look looked a lot better then the grey paint job and the red tail with that horrible looking logo!